tagut

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit تَكُتْ (tagut, “clouds”), from Proto-Berber.

Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight ⵜⴰⴳⵯⵓⵜⵜ (tagʷutt, “fog”), Tarifit tayyut (“fog, mist”), and Senhaja de Srair ṯaggʷuṯ, ṯawweṯ (“fog”), Tachawit ayu (“fog”), Kabyle agu (“fog”), Chenoua hawt (“fog”), and Nefusa تاڭوت (tagut, “fog, mist”).

• IPA^(key): /taɡut/

tagut f (plural tagutin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⴳⵓⵜ, Arabic spelling تاڭوت)

1. fog

   ايڭنّا يخبا س تاڭوت. ― ignna ixba s tagut. ― the sky is covered with the fog.

2. cloud, clouds

   Synonym: amdlu

3. west, setting sun. sunset

   لبابور تسنال س تاڭوت. ― lbabbur tsnal i tagut. ― the ship heads towards the sunset

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 4 t—ẓ (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/4) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2393b

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tagut

1. due to, because of
2. as a consequence of
3. for, in response to, in return for

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “вследствие, за, из, по”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika